MARIA TEREZA and THIAGO SOBREIRO
“Módulos Espelhados 2021-22” (Mirrored Modules 2021-22)
Galvanized steel structure, coated with mirrored acrylic
240 cm x 240 cm x 240cm
The proposal of a modular city, represented by geometric shapes, offers a way to
perceive the viability of interactions that overlap with art in the city. Beyond the city
as a medium, the artists project a real possibility of interaction and creation for the
passerby of a place through urban furniture whose purpose is to foster interaction between work and viewer, apprehension of the city as a territory of aesthetic learning
and aesthetic transitions. If each person constructs their own experience, if each
experience is unique depending on that subject's relationship with the space and
their world references, they believe that experiencing an object that inserts the
environment into its form, just as it inserts the subject at the same time (through
reflection) united with the images of space, subject, and physical structure of the
work, the work "Mirrored Modules" attributes meaning to transit, even if the visitor
does not wish to sit, walk, or touch the furniture.
A obra foi previamente exposta no Parque Cultural Casa do Governador, em Vila
Velha (ES) num projeto de exposição que propõe um diálogo entre a arte
contemporânea e a natureza.
Maria Tereza
Rondônia, 1997
Lives and works Vitória, ES
Instagram: @mariaeunaosou
The starting point for Maria Tereza's artistic research is writing. Through her series of
logbooks, she collects perceptions of the world, expressions of social issues, and her
own feelings. These journals give rise to her painting and installation works. Both
techniques, central to the artist's production, are a synthesis of her initially abstract
and later concrete reading of the world. These paintings and installations, therefore,
become possible spaces of residence in the urban environment, in contrast to the
rural origins that mediated the artist's first life experiences with the world, the land,
and territorial affectivity.
Thiago Sobreiro
Vitoria, ES
Lives and works Vitória, ES
Instagram: thiagosobreiros
Thiago Sobreiro develops a creative process born from the intersection of memory
and matter. His work engages with the urban and peripheral landscape and seeks to
reflect on transformations and the way humans adapt to the environment. His works
explore the marks that time and people inscribe on the territory—marks that are both
permanent and transitory. By tensioning the individual gesture and the collective landscape, he creates sculptures, installations, and interventions that invite
encounter, reflection, and affection. His poetics stem from the desire to remember
what seems invisible: the hands that build and transform the places we inhabit.
